Austin paper: Mack, lawyer approached by SMU

[SMU1523]

well there is a very personal reason but he doesn't want to reveal it just yet

I've heard rumors of a serious health issue. I don't want to say what I have heard out of respect, but if what I have heard is correct, then his reason for leaving is warranted and very sad.

[StallionsModelT]

well there is a very personal reason but he doesn't want to reveal it just yet

I've heard rumors of a serious health issue. I don't want to say what I have heard out of respect, but if what I have heard is correct, then his reason for leaving is warranted and very sad.

I really hope that isn't the case. I wish the man a long and healthy life.

[sbsmith]

I'm hoping I'm dead wrong, but I have a feeling that our little board thinks we are a much more attractive job than we are in reality, and that we might strike out on a lot of the big names being bantered about here. We could do so much worse than Mack. Phil's available again after another successful coordinator stint!

Mack is one of those big names that we'll strike out on. We'll certainly get our chance to do worse than him.

[Rebel10]

The UH job might open open which is WAY more desirable than ours (we just need to take the blinders off) and that's in our own conference.

Aren't you always calling them Cougar High and now you are saying that they have a WAY more desirable job than SMU. smh.

[Rebel10]

I'm hoping I'm dead wrong, but I have a feeling that our little board thinks we are a much more attractive job than we are in reality, and that we might strike out on a lot of the big names being bantered about here. We could do so much worse than Mack. Phil's available again after another successful coordinator stint!

I don't think we strike out on Beaty or Heupel. Sounds almost like you have battered spouse syndrome. But you were a JJ supporter and that was their thought process.

[Stallion]

Jamail's son went to SMU-and he has given significant amounts to SMU-from a lengthy Texas Monthly article

Joseph D. Jr. and Lee Jamail

HOUSTON, $16.25 MILLION
$5 million to the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Jamail, a Houston attorney, has a bachelor’s and a law degree from UT. (September 1996)

$5 million to Rice University in Houston. (September 1996)

$3 million to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. (September 1996)

$1 million to the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. (September 1996)

$1 million to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. (September 1996)

$1 million to the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. (September 1996)

$250,000 to Southern Methodist University. Mr. and Mrs. Jamail’s son Robert is an SMU alum. (February 1997)

[SMU2007]

well there is a very personal reason but he doesn't want to reveal it just yet

I've heard rumors of a serious health issue. I don't want to say what I have heard out of respect, but if what I have heard is correct, then his reason for leaving is warranted and very sad.

Serious health issue so he's taking a job in Oakland?

[SMU1523]

Like I stated:

"I've heard rumors..."

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Isn't one of the donor plaques in Ford from the Jamail family?

I know there is a name on one of them that is a definite UT name and it always makes me do a double-take.

[SMU2007]

well there is a very personal reason but he doesn't want to reveal it just yet

I've heard rumors of a serious health issue. I don't want to say what I have heard out of respect, but if what I have heard is correct, then his reason for leaving is warranted and very sad.

Serious health issue so he's taking a job in Oakland?

not saying you are wrong, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

[SMU1523]

I agree, the timeline is too suspicious...

[Digetydog]

where there is smoke, there is an agent trying to get their client a better deal.

Hopefully those that matter in this decision are focused on what we all know would work at SMU - a hard charging young head coach who understands what it takes to be successful - who has the tools he needs to be successful (good staff). Not some old wash out who needs retirement money.

Joe Jamail is a billionare. He is representing Mack Brown because he is still angry at how UT treated him. He would love for Mack to win big so that he could tell the Tom Hicks of the world where to ...

If Mack wants to coach again, Jamail is going to find him the best spot to succeed.

BTW - It is not out of the question that UNC fires Fedora and looks to Mack to fix it.

[Digetydog]

The reason why they turn their noses up are because they feel like we are going to land the big time coordinator. As if we are the only ones in the know that these are the hot commodities. Lots of shake out will still occur in the coaching world in the coming months. The UH job might open open which is WAY more desirable than ours (we just need to take the blinders off) and that's in our own conference. I'd be personally thrilled with just about any coordinator mentioned or several "retreads" that have been thrown about (such as Mack). I'm hoping I'm dead wrong, but I have a feeling that our little board thinks we are a much more attractive job than we are in reality, and that we might strike out on a lot of the big names being bantered about here. We could do so much worse than Mack. Phil's available again after another successful coordinator stint!

Just as the retreads don't work out, the "hot young coach" can be a bust.
1) I give Kingsbury 1 more year at the helm of the Sand Aggies.
2) Larry Fedora has been a disaster for UNC

[Billy Joe]

It will not matter who the next coach is if the AD continues to load us up with the hardest non-conference schedule in the country. Team does not have a chance before the season starts.

[SMU1523]

It will not matter who the next coach is if the AD continues to load us up with the hardest non-conference schedule in the country. Team does not have a chance before the season starts.

To Steve Orsini's defense. At year seven of the June era we should have been good enough to compete with the teams he scheduled. When these games were scheduled, nobody imagined that Baylor, aTm, and TCU would all be top 10 teams.